FDA proposes indoor tanning ban on minors to fight skin cancer

Washington

THE US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday proposed barring everyone under 18 from using tanning beds, a sweeping move that medical experts say is a major step towards reducing the risk of skin cancer in the United States.

For decades, medical researchers saw indoor tanning as little more than a curiosity. But evidence has been gathering that tanning beds may play more of a role in the nation's cancer numbers than originally thought.